Cooperate, or backstab? Build, or destroy? All for one and one for all, or every mouse for himself? That's the tension driving Transformice, a multiplayerpuzzleplatformer where you are the mouse and the goal is the cheese.

Once you choose a guest name or register (just a name and password, no email), the game immediately throws you into a room. It can be very disorienting, since even if you click on the "help" button; it doesn't fully explain all the controls, strategies, and secrets of the game. There are over sixty maps, and on each map there is at least one hole and at least one piece of cheese. Your goal normally is to get cheese and get to a hole, and you do this with the [WASD] or [arrow] keys to move and jump.

One or two mice every round are chosen to be shaman. The shaman can summon objects near himself and use the "spirit" command to make mice jump farther. He does this by clicking on an object in the lower right, then summoning it within his range. But he must also consider whether he wants to rotate the object (mouse wheel, [Z] and [X], or [ctrl] and [shift]), whether he should anchor it ([C] is a free anchor to another object, [V] is a fixed anchor to another object, [B] is a fixed anchor to nothing, and [N] is a rotating anchor) and whether it should be invisible ([spacebar]). Then there's the sheer variety of things you can place on levels, from trampolines to cannonballs to anvils.

As even the instructions show, being a shaman is complicated, and your first try as shaman will probably consist of the other mice screaming at you via the chatbox at the bottom of the screen UR DOIN IT RONG, only probably less polite. So you'll probably want to change room to a room with no one in it and practice your skills. Type /room and then a number or word to change to that room, and if no one is in that room, you'll be the shaman every time.

Analysis: Transformice seems to be a game that is well aware of the various motivations for people to play. Some multiplayer games get utterly broken by trolling and vicious players because the gamemakers obviously didn't anticipate that playstyle. Transformice not only anticipates it, some levels seem to encourage it: in the quickly developing lingo of the game, duelling maps are where two shamans have two color coded holes, one for each shaman. Generally the first thing that happens on these maps is the shamans try to destroy each other or block each others holes. In fact, the game seems to take a lot of gamebreakers for granted. For example, some of the maps seem to be expecting you as the player to try for clipping errors.

On most of the levels, the best result for you, personally, is to be cooperative, and in many levels trying to sabotage others frequently results in your own death. While messing around occasionally is usually taken in good humor, true trolling as a shaman is very badly received in most rooms. You may be banned by the other players (/ban playername), other shamans may single you out for killing when the turn switches, or you may simply find that your audience simply scampers off to other rooms.

For me, I had the most fun playing when someone suggested in group chat going to a room composed just of people who want to earn cheese. A bunch of us did, and for a good hour we racked up cheese very quickly because we were all cooperating. Here's the funny thing, and it will help you understand why a game of adorable cartoon mice is rating-r: I can't tell you the name of the room we used because Jay would wash my mouth out with soap. Swearing and vulgarity are near constant in the chat boxes of Transformice. So are memes: when some epic fail necessitates becoming an hero, the most frequent shout is "SPARTAAAA!" (If you understood all the references in that sentence, you'll fit right in.) If someone is being particularly offensive (slurs are a deal breaker for me), you can click on their name and ignore them.

Never forget about the option to change rooms. Different rooms have different climates, which develop as people choose to stay or leave. In the total opposite of the room where I had the most fun, sometimes a room will develop in which every single person is using their term as shaman to try to kill everyone else, and every single person is having a lot of fun doing this. Ask yourself what kind of play style you like, and then try different rooms until you find one with people who like it too.

Take advantage of the ability to create rooms! (Be aware that no one owns a room, and anyone can enter.) Try out /room jig to hang out with out JayIsGamers. How about /room jignoobs for a more forgiving place where you're all learning, /room jigevil for a place where everyone tries to kill everyone, and /room jignice for people who want to be sweet and helpful? Do you have more ideas for themes for rooms? Suggest rooms and tell us your Transformice nickname in the comments! Really great Flash multiplayer games are not easy to come by, and the addictive and chaotic gameplay of Transformice ranks with the best. Plus, cheese. Oh yes.

Me too, JonMW. Funny, I just learned about and tried out this game yesterday. Too buggy for me to enjoy for very long, though watching a youtube someone made about this game gave me quite a few laughs.

are you guys kidding me? its not that buggy for me. and this is by far one of the most fun games i have played in the past year or two. I usually end up truly laughing out loud every round. this is loads and loads of fun!

some tips:
1) you can join a room by typing /room , and you can make your own room to practice as shaman.
2) if you want loads of fun, join room 1, it usually has about 80 mice in there at a time.

I had trouble figuring things out. I wish there was an option that allowed you to not be the shaman. I did not enjoy the getting yelled at by everyone feel, although I understand that you can try and practice in an empty room. Still, its an interesting idea because it forces you to work with random people on the internet.

It's great to see this game advertised. Hopefully it won't be too advertised on other, more childish sites and no one never mentions the possibility of swearing in the chat room, which is what I and safely 70% of the community playing does when the shaman kills us.

Also, the correct term IS "an hero". If you don't get it, google it. My username there is Gloont and I'll be joining you guys.

I played this for several hours yesterday, and was laughing pretty much the whole time!

1. Being Shaman is the toughest job. You can make a private /room to practice if you want! People will tell at you when you don't know what you're doing, but they're usually trying to help. You can learn by regular play! Don't get discouraged!

2. You earn titles by being the first person to grab the cheese and get back to the hole, so invariably the majority of players rush the cheese the very moment it's possible. As a shaman, you need to predict this and work with it.

Regarding titles, currently titles are earned in three ways.

If you want a title, just do one of these three things in a larger quantity:

Lifetime Cheese collected.
Number of "First Cheese" collections (get to the hole first)
Number of mice saved while playing Shaman.

The titles go up pretty high, so there are a lot to collect! Google "Transformice Titles" to find the full list. I'm sure it will change over time.

I've tried this game a few times. The first time I tried, it said it was unable to connect to the server. The next day, I try to play and the game doesn't load at all! Has this happened to anyone else? How do i fix it? Please help! I really want to play this!

Oh my god, you may not believe me, but I was the shaman on that level where the mouse is shouting "ULTIMATE CHEESE FORTRESS." After I filled the room with boxes, I started making anvil monsters out of rotating joints. You can see my friend Shasm in the picture, and my name was either Chros or some other name before I made an official account. Anyway the reason I troll in particular is because lots of times I get screwed over by the other mice or shaman. Does me adding to the trollage solve anything? No. But it's way more fun than doing the right thing, especially when your score gets reset after the shaman round anyway.

Hi everybody im a long time transformice player and just tellin the buggs are due to a big update
on june 19 th including new maps,a shop,english ans russian versions ( This game is french )
and new maps
the game is fun but laggs a bit will be fixed in a week or so

Mine isn't connecting either. Shame, I really wanted to play this one.
Oh well, I'll add it to the Favourites and come back later. I WILL create an ultimate cheese fortress, and I WILL annoy some troll shamans before retreating to /jignice to eat cheese and be friendly. :)

A small tip for if you're french but playing on the english servers:
Pressing the K key changes the usual WASD for a ZQSD setting, so that you can play on an azerty keyboard, while still being able to chat without making stupid mistakes, like replacing all your "a"s by "q"s.

SomethingAwful, GameSetWatch, Kotaku, Reddit, JIG, /v and /b pretty much nuked this game with an inrush of unexpected popularity.

Luckily, I got to play it before it went down and I enjoyed it, but I wish that I had had time to play more-- I was on lunchbreak and what little I experienced was along the lines of: "Hmm. I'm in a cage. This sucks, we're not even moving" to "Holy crap, that was hilarious!!"

Oh, I love this game. It really is the easiest way to waste away about 2 hours without even noticing. I was disappointed to find that nobody was in /jignice but I was reasonably happy to retreat to the packed room, seeing as there were no very strong haters in there.
Anyone else hate being shaman? The PRESSURE! The first game I played, I was shaman. Not good. Instead of receiving friendly advice, I got, "Worst shaman EVAAARRR" and "KILL THE SHAMAN!!"
Oh well. I got back at them when they were shaman bygoing into their opponent's mouse hole. Take that!

Something interesting: On a level with two shamans(Can be just one, but it goes slower and cannot be quite as spectacular) and no preexisting physics objects(Again, there can be, but it will interfere and likely kill one or both shamans before they can make it as powerful as it could have been), make an anvil god with both shamans as fast as possible, but make every piece ghost. The result is a massive whirling swarm of anvils flying everywhere, but because they don't affect mice, the shamans can continue to upgrade it for a minute or so. Then, one of them attaches a *solid* object and everyone dies...

Ironically, it seems to be a valid tactic on some of the bomb levels, as with all of the anvils flying everywhere, bombs can't last very long before being hit. Certainly a more fun solution.

My connection issues disappeared after the first few days, and now I'm adamant on buying everything in the store and achieving the rank of Ninja Mouse or I will not quit the game. This is probably not healthy.

The knew ducking animation has opened up a string of fun glitches, like moonwalking; I hope they never fix walljumping. I do wish, though, there was some kind of unlimited sandbox mode for shamans to build stuff.

I hate being shammy too... :( I usually change rooms right before becoming a shaman. If the room I left was good I will go straight back to it - this resets your temp ranking.

Love this game though, great way to waste a few minutes whenever you're bored. I didn't get my first place until yesterday and I've been playing it for 3-4 days now! I hope they continue to add more levels and cool stuff!

I don't understand how this game has a 4.9 rating when only half the commenters seem to like it.

As for me, I don't see the game here. You either wait around til the Shaman does stuff, or you get pushed off. Once the shaman does something, you get the cheese and then go back to the hole. All in all, not a lot of gameplay there, and what there is is not exciting in the least.

the bugs are what make the game fun! :D
like walljumping and moonwalking. the lag usually kills me but it worth it making anvilsnakes everywhere! and shouting SPARTA when the shaman fails and you can't win. or DERP! the only other problem with the game is the connection issues, im constantly kicked from the server.

How about this?
If you like huge crowds of chaotic mice, all fighting for space on your monitor, come on over to room Crowded!! Invented by Yours Truly. it fulfills the every need of those who are most cerrtainly NOT claustrophobic! :3

I've been playing constantly for the past few days, and discovered that this is one of the most fun and addictive games on the internet right now. Right now I'm hanging out in room 6, but I'm all over.

It is addicting to own people, but I do wish you would make 1 server where everyone works together and a ban if not XD.

My downfall is there is always someone better than me. Exactly 1 person. In an hour of gameplay, I rack up 1 first and about 25 seconds. It drives me INSANE my title should be "Second in Command/First Mouse"

Transformice is so much fun! I've been playing for about a week now and i'm still addicted, and i just learned how to walljump! :P
Only down side is that i find that the servers are full or disconnecting a lot. ):

I have to admit, I avoided this game for a while since it seemed like a weird premise that any jerk player could easily screw up for everyone else. But I finally tried it last night and I've been playing almost nonstop ever since... it's really addicting.

It's frustrating at times, but it's always fun to watch the insanity play out in each game. The shaman controls are tough to learn, but between practicing in a private room and watching enough other players, I think I'm finally starting to get the hang of it.

ok does anyone else get 'unable to connect to server :'( ' half the time that's what i get and it's really making me mad because I love love love the game!! It's an awesome game even though i'm horrible at it..... but yea i havent been able to get on very much lately b/c the server is almost always down...

I have loved this game since it first came out, but feel that recent changes have really spoilled the game.
The first is the level editor. I, like most people, eagerly anticipated it, but now it has been around for a while, I think it has really changed the nature of the game. Barely any user-contributed maps require the shaman, and the maps are all ice tracks, contraptions, or generic platformers. This amazing game is in danger of becoming a low budget Little Big Planet, something it isn't. I have made several maps that need the shaman, but all of them have been deleted very quickly.
The second thing that is killing the shaman, TFM's best feature in my opinion, is the pixel ground tool given to shamen on the original maps. It has taken all the skill out of shamaning, and it is the only tool (apart from spirit and balloons) that can be used on those maps. Surely the developers should be trying to bring back interest the shaman, rather than putting another nail in its coffin.

I have loved this game since it first came out, but feel that recent changes have really spoilled the game.
The first is the level editor. I, like most people, eagerly anticipated it, but now it has been around for a while, I think it has really changed the nature of the game. Barely any user-contributed maps require the shaman, and the maps are all ice tracks, contraptions, or generic platformers. This amazing game is in danger of becoming a low budget Little Big Planet, something it isn't. I have made several maps that need the shaman, but all of them have been deleted very quickly.
The second thing that is killing the shaman, TFM's best feature in my opinion, is the pixel ground tool given to shamen on the original maps. It has taken all the skill out of shamaning, and it is the only tool (apart from spirit and balloons) that can be used on those maps. Surely the developers should be trying to bring back interest the shaman, rather than putting another nail in its coffin.

Hey guys!I realy like this game a lot. One of my favorite things is the fact they dont have a swearing filter. This can make some people not like it but it just lets me use my extensive vocabulary more efficiently and allows me to not need to censor my thoughts.
(p.s. if you ever see me say hi)

Hi there. I love Transformice. I'm usually in /room jig, but if it's empty, I'll pick a random number and go to that number room. One thing that really annoys me is the lack of a swearing filter. I know some people might like this, but I hate people swearing. Also, when I try to ask people to cut down on the language, I just get ranted at. Finally, the game has just been updated and I was automatically logged out, as always happens for updates. Howeer, when I tried to log back in, it told me: 'Your game version is incorrect :'('. What does this mean? Help me please!

Transformice has a specific fullscreen - it lets u see the beyond the map.

How do you get it? Zoom in.
On windows explorer you can go to the bottom right corner where it has a magnifying glass. Select the arrow next to it,select custom, and type 1000. To undo the effects: click the magnify glass and its back to 100.

Hows it work? Transformice is set to pixel. Zooming in grows the screen but keeps the maps and rooms the same. Some new maps require fullscreen but usually u can just use it to find short cuts and troll people.

i totally agree with Atrox, about the level editor. To me, the shaman was the most important part of the game. They would either make, or break the level and you never knew what would happen. Now, with all the user-made levels, there is no point in the shaman, everyone grabs the cheese and runs off without a moment for the shaman to do a thing. Without a shaman to change the world for better or worse, it really is just another platformer game. I miss using pro shaman skills, no one knows how to be a good shaman since the change. :(
they should make a non-editor room.

a room that i go often to train my sham skills is /room un-pro! it's just for me or all the pro-shams-in-training
i also made a room for people who wanna have friends which is called: /room friends4eva
and a 3rd room: /room trolled-trolls
for people that you should've already guessed

there are rooms without user created maps. it is accessed by typing /room vanilla name.
i would also liek to say if you want ot have a room for pro shamans, tyr /room shaman or /room shaman 2.
hope i could help. my name is tomtzz. say hi if u see me :3 useually room noob or room pro

You guys out there. Like me, i wonder how to double spawn your items. Well, I'm here to tell you. Press c and then press any number 1-9 and you spawn 2 of them. Lol, it also works with totem too. Come to room fun and meet me.

Posted by: nighthater | November 26, 2011 1:28 AM there are rooms without user created maps. it is accessed by typing /room vanilla name.
i would also liek to say if you want ot have a room for pro shamans, tyr /room shaman or /room shaman 2.
hope i could help. my name is tomtzz. say hi if u see me :3 useually room noob or room pro

Posted by: JIGuest | November 27, 2011 2:19 PM So it seems that if you don't leave a nickname and just hit enter, you get sent to a turorial room and there's background cheese music o.O

Posted by: islaeria | January 8, 2012 4:28 PM You guys out there. Like me, i wonder how to double spawn your items. Well, I'm here to tell you. Press c and then press any number 1-9 and you spawn 2 of them. Lol, it also works with totem too. Come to room fun and meet me.

Posted by: MAH MOM | February 10, 2012 10:28 PM transformice is the best game OVA! Can any1 tell me a cheese generator or something? i need 1 bad. IF Ya find troyrule, say Hi and Tell me that ur from jayisgame

This game seems fun and I really want to try it, but I can't connect to the game for some reason. I've had the same proplem with ChatChat too. It's weird I've played ChatChat before and all the sudden it stoped working. Please help this isreally fusterating.

Its very misleading that Transformice is rated "XP" for content. The game itself is very friendly. The players, on the otherhand...ya, I can see why it would get a rating like that. Too bad there isn't a section that explains what the content is that gives a game its rating. I can see many people over passing misleading rated titles like this

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